Word: grant-in-aid
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This wanderlust brought him to Rensselaer, although the choice between the Engineers and the Irish was mostly a financial decision. Rensselaer offered a full, four-year grant-in-aid scholarship, while Notre Dame proferred a partial scholarship...
...most carefully reasoned dissections of the New Federalism came from Vermont's Republican Governor Richard Snelling, chairman of the National Governors' Association. While the U.S. should not return to "the pork barrel and grant-in-aid grab bag" that had characterized federal-state relations in the 1970s, Snelling said, neither should "our sacred union of states become a confederation of competitors in which only the footloose can flourish." He assailed Reagan's contention that a person who does not like governmental programs in one state should "vote with his feet" by moving to another. He also criticized...
During the spring before Walker's arrival on campus, five players were disciplined when a traditional team party turned rowdy, and a sixth, star Split End Lindsay Scott, lost his grant-in-aid after a shoving match with an academic adviser. The seniors served their penance by doing maintenance work at the school during the summer, and Scott, a junior, decided to pay his own way to play this fall. Sobered by their close call with oblivion, the seniors gathered two dozen players around them and, in the heat of a summer-long drought, ran laps and worked...
...game and watched the clowns do the same thing over and over again--but you laughed each time anyway. And you ate Cracker Jack. And cotton candy. And then you got sick. Well, those days are back again--and they're as close as Radcliffe Yard and the Grant-in-Aid production...
...actors that bring this show back from the dead. It's too bad that the members of the Grant-in-Aid board (many of whom orchestrated this show) can't seem to divorce themselves from the shows they select. What they need is some artistic distance. And what Andy Borowitz really needs is a good editor. In No Net, he's let loose and with the cost of this production he should have been leashed. As Bucks says when he describes the audience's reaction to his circus, I haven't seen such a disappointed crowd since the Chicago Fire...